Residential and Commercial Development
Does a change in stakeholders’ behaviors lead to a reduction to threats to biodiversity (or restoration)?
Alternative Sustainable Livelihoods for Coastal Communities: A Review of Experience and Guide to Best Practice
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Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Effective at Reducing Local Threats to Specified Elements of Biodiversity and/or Improving or Maintaining the Conservation Status of Those Elements?
Key points in this document.
Case Studies: Bundling Agricultural Products with Ecosystem Services
This paper examines how bundling of ecosystem services into agricultural products (BESAP) markets are actually being set up on the ground, drawing lessons learned from six cases in Africa and Latin America.
Community-based Natural Resource Management and Poverty Alleviation in Namibia: A Case Study
Through community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), Namibians who form conservancies now have legal rights to manage wildlife and benefit from tourism.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2024: Harnessing a Theory of Change for Effective Conservation Enterprise Strategies Posters
From May to September 2024, nine activity teams—including USAID staff and implementing partners—from seven countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia participated in the fourth iteration of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2024: Harnessing a Theory of Change for Effective Conservation Enterprise Strategies Webinar Presentation
From May to September 2024, nine activity teams—including USAID staff and implementing partners—from seven countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia participated in the fourth iteration of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab.
Conservation Enterprise Planning Checklist
This checklist can be used by practitioners to help plan their conservation enterprise approach.
Final Evaluation of the Sustainable Conservation Approaches in Priority Ecosystems Program
This final evaluation of the Sustainable Conservation Approaches in Priority Ecosystems (SCAPES) program assesses conservation strategies used by four implementing partners to address priority threats and strengthen local capacity to conserve biodiversity.
Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) Performance Evaluation Final Report
This evaluation focused on global issues and Washington core support for the GSTA Project.
Local Business for Global Biodiversity Conservation: Improving the Design of Small Business Development Strategies in Biodiversity Projects
This guidebook guides conservation planners and project designers through three main steps in designing local businesses aimed at conservation: (1) assessing the role of small businesses in conservation; (2) determining if small businesses can be socially, economically, and environmentally viable and sustainable; and (3) incorporating issues important to small business development, such as local regulations and resource rights, into the project design.
Local Communities and Natural Products: A Manual for Organizing Natural Resource Management Groups for Resource Management Planning, Enterprise Development and Integration into Value Chains
This manual is intended to guide project planners through the process of integrating enterprises related to the production of goods from natural products into community-based natural resource management plans.
Systematic Approaches to Livelihoods Enhancement and Diversification: A Review of Global Experiences
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Tmatboey Community-Based Ecotourism Project, Cambodia
Case study of the Tmatboey Ibis Project which aims to conserve the globally threatened large waterbirds found at Tmatboey, Cambodiam using the ibises as ‘flagships’, by establishing a local community-based tourism enterprise that directly links revenue received to long-term species conservation.
